![]() ![]() Dublin in 1487 is frenetic with activity and tense with expectation. Rebellious lords and renegade members of the council plot a strategy to defeat the usurper who now holds the crown. These sellswords’ wages are paid for by the sister, well married abroad, of a deposed and supposedly tyrannical king who hopes her House can win back power. ![]() 236 2000 professional mercenaries from the east arrive to form part of an invasion force. You would do well to know about the lives of those who went before” Jamie Lannister, Feast for Crows, p. Opposing this position are the many Tudor historians who like to claim that the Wars of the Roses represent the final breakdown of the feudal system and lead directly to the Tudor Era and the birth of the modern age.With Dr Helen Castor, Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Professor Colin Richmond, Emeritus Professor of History, Keele University Dr Steven Gunn is a Tudor historian and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Merton College, Oxford.King in the West? Tracing the impact of Ireland’s myth and history in Game of Thrones “.the histories will open your eyes. Macfarlane argued the political instability is wildly overstated and there were no Wars of the Roses at all. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Wars of the Roses which have been the scene for many a historical skirmish over the ages: The period in the fifteenth century when the House of Lancaster and the House of York were continually at odds is described by Shakespeare, in the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III as a time of enormous moral, military and political turmoil - the quintessential civil war but twentieth century historians like K.B. ![]()
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